Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Lin Yi thought about it, and finally felt that the empire should just sit on the sidelines and learn from Milician, sell goods at both ends, and get a wave of war benefits first.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi shook his head directly at Zhao Xu, saying that he had not yet decided which camp to join.

Zhao Xu saw Lin Yi shaking his head, and he also knew what Lin Yi was thinking. After all, he had asked Lin Yi more than once in the past few years about these questions.

"Forget it, this kind of important matter needs to be carefully considered and cannot be rushed. There is still plenty of time now. I don't think there will be a fight in Europe in a short time."

Zhao Xu comforted Lin Yi and said.

"By the way, Yi'er, now that Luo Chen's matter has been resolved, it's time for you to come out and share my worries."

When Lin Yi heard Zhao Xu's words, he rolled his eyes secretly.

He said this as if he had been idle during this period.

Although he has hardly been out of the palace during this period of time and has lived a very low-key life.

But if anything happens, I also make suggestions for Zhao Xu. Even Long Xiangjun is commanded remotely by me. How can I say that I am idle?

However, Lin Yi only cursed these words in his heart, but on the surface, Lin Yi still responded to Zhao Xu.

"Yes, uncle, I will return to Longxiang Army tomorrow."

After hearing Lin Yi say that he would return to Longxiang Army tomorrow, Zhao Xu nodded with satisfaction.

"As an elite force independent of the imperial defense system, I feel relieved to leave the Longxiang Army to you." Zhao Xu said to Lin Yi with a smile.

"Uncle, you are so big-hearted, aren't you afraid that I will lead Long Xiang's army to rebel?" Seeing that Zhao Xu was in a good mood, Lin Yiliu joked.

"Rebellion? If you are willing to rebel against your brother, I have no problem with it. We are all one family anyway." Zhao Xu said very honorably.

And as soon as he finished saying this, Zhao He, who had been silent on the side, quickly said: "Brother, you don't need to rebel. I will give you a certain position?"

Lin Yi looked at Zhao He, who was eager to take the blame, and quickly shook his head.

"Are you kidding me? I am a wild and free-spirited person. If you ask me to be the emperor and squat in this palace every day, you might as well kill me."

"So, brother Hei, it's up to you to take this position. My eldest brother can do the work for you."

Just kidding, why should I become an entrepreneur when I can obviously be a second-generation person? Doesn’t this mean that your life is too easy and you are making things difficult for yourself?

Having already guessed that Lin Yi would have such thoughts, Zhao Xu and Zhao He could only look at each other and smile.

This nephew (eldest brother) here is good at everything, but he just doesn't want to carry the tripod.

If Lin Yi knew what they were thinking now, he would say, "Are you carrying the tripod?" That's obviously taking the blame!

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Then Yi'er, will you still do what you did before?" Zhao Xu looked at Lin Yi and asked.

"Yes." Lin Yi nodded, and then continued: "For some time in the future, I will still focus on weapons research and development and the Long Xiang Army."

"By the way, speaking of Longxiang Army, uncle, I think the current number of Longxiang Army is not enough."

"The next world war will not be the scale of tens or hundreds of thousands of people we experienced before."

"The smallest scale of that kind of world war is a group army with hundreds of thousands of people."

"Bigger battles involve millions of people."

"And the empire's minimum goal in this war is to control Southeast Asia. In South Asia, it is the most important country of John, so we must be prepared to go to war directly with John."

"As a result, the empire's current army numbers, including the Long Xiang Army, are not enough."

"So, I want to slowly expand the empire's army in the next five years. Before that, we must definitely expand the empire to more than 300 million regular troops."

"At the same time, two million reserves must be established. These reserves must also undergo strict training. Once the war starts, these reserves can be quickly transferred directly to the regular army and serve as the main force of the empire."

"In this way, the empire can directly raise an army of 500 million when it starts a war. In this way, we can control Southeast Asia in the shortest time."

When Zhao Xu heard Lin Yi's words, he nodded and expressed his approval.

In fact, Zhao Xu himself is not a procrastinating or hesitant person.

At first, he just didn't want to laugh or fight. Now that he has decided to fight, Zhao Xu will not deliberately hold him back.

In his own words, the empire has only two attitudes towards war, either not to fight or to fight to the death.

Since this is a situation where we have to fight, then use all your strength to fight to death!

With Daxia's current population and economic strength, it can be said that it is very easy to raise an army of five million people.

If the necessary moment comes, these five million troops can be more than doubled.

Lin Yi saw that Zhao Xu agreed with his idea, and he continued: "At the same time, in order to reduce the casualties of the empire's soldiers, I suggest that the empire can use servant troops during war."

"Servant army? Are you talking about people from the Sakura country?" Zhao Xu looked at Lin Yi and asked.

Currently, within the control of the empire, only Ryukyu and the Tokugawa shogunate are not native to the empire. If you want to recruit servants, you can only recruit from these two places.

To be honest, Ryukyu's population is too small. There are only two theater troupes in the country, and they can't even get together a division. It is indeed a bit difficult to recruit servant troops from Ryukyu.

The situation on the Tokugawa side is a little better. It is expected that the Tokugawa shogunate will be able to envy two or three divisions from the hands of the Tokugawa shogunate.

If Meiji is eliminated again, the scale may be even larger.

"You can handle this matter yourself." Zhao Xu thought of this and waved his hands indifferently.

In his opinion, the servant army will always be just a servant army. He even left Long Xiang's army under the control of Lin Yi. Why does he still care about this tens of thousands of servant troops?

To be honest, Lin Yi was not ignorant of the combat effectiveness of the servant army.

He wanted to join the army just so that someone could do some of the dirty work in the future.

And this target is, of course, the indigenous people in the island countries in Southeast Asia.

Lin Yi's hatred for those people was no worse than the people of Sakura Country.

Now that he has the opportunity, Lin Yi certainly wants to take over these island countries. Clean it up and make room for the people of the empire to live.

And in this cleanup, no matter how careful you are, there will always be casualties.

As a civilized country, the empire naturally does not want such a scandal. Therefore, Lin Yi planned to leave it to the servant army to persuade the local residents to demolish.

However, no matter what role the servant army will play in the empire's battle order in the future, that will be a matter of the future.

But now, Lin Yi thinks it's better to give priority to other things.

For example, new weapons developed by the empire.

Lin Yi had long wanted to see these things.